Step 19: Earring Hooks and Protection

Step 20: Show Your Love

Now that you know a variety of attachment methods, ways of shaping the clay, how to paint and protect the piece, etc., you have the knowledge to make ...

I wanted to make some very personalized and funky earrings to give to my little sister. She loves all the classics--Zelda, Totoro, Nintendo, Invader Zim, Robots, etc., and generally loves to wear anything that screams loud and proud to the world "I LOVE THIS STUFF!!" While her backpack, t-shirts, shoes, shoelaces, necklaces, and hats all carry the stamps of various anime and video game titles, her ears remained sadly unadorned. Luckily I stepped up to include her ears in the party.

This instructable covers how to make awesome Instructables Robot earrings to show off your love for Instructables. Once you know the basic process of attaching pieces, firing, and painting the clay, the other geek earrings are easy to make! I have included drawing 'patterns' of the other earrings with all the shapes broken down.

It is simple to make earrings of just about any character or object using this process. Happy making!

The polymer clay I bought is labeled "Original Sculpey", and when I work with it it's super soft and really hard to hold without mushing, especially in the small size of an earring. Then I remembered another polymer clay, "Sculpey III" and am wondering is there any difference between the two (or three, but I've never heard of "Sculpey II") in terms of usage, firmness, etc? Thanks~

I would like to publicly THANK Emily for selling me this pair of Robot Earrings for my wife. She LOVES THEM!!! She said this was the sweetest and BEST gift I've given her in a long time. She said your craftsmanship was "superb" too. LOL, I guess we both get brownie points. Thanks again!